Dirty Sprite 2.456 – Yoshimitsu Umekawa’s Color Infused Water

So…I’m mad. I did a little bit of digging to find out the ingredients to making images like these. My best guess is a colored oil and water mixture + a ton of photoshop. Which is completely fine! I mentioned I was mad, because there are no mentions, across like 5 or 6 other blogs, on what exactly Yoshimitsu Umekawa’s awesome Future DS2 like photographs really entail. Per www.booooooom.com:

Equal parts mesmerizing and unsettling, Yoshimitsu Umekawa’s photographs are positively (and negatively) nuclear, drawing on the issues and anxieties that surround modern day Japan.

I didn’t want to crap on anyone’s parade when I saw the cover art for DS2. I knew the whole world was on Future’s wave, so I would have looked like a hater for saying the cover art looked like stock footage pulled from some vector website, but it was..and is…ripped.

I’d like to go out on a limb and assume that inspirations like Future’s DS2 cover came from original works from people like Yoshimitsu Umekawa’s. You can check out more of his work below. Share and enjoy!